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The first flushing thunder box was actually christened with Aussie slang in mind with yes crapper as the man.
No the ancient Sumetia, Egypt and Indian's had inven…ted it but in 1778 John Bramah made a better one. then in 1849 Stephen Green desighned the U-bend or water trap to stp the smell.then in 1888 Doulton invented the water closet where a box was on top on the celeing and to flush you would pull a sting and the waste would go into a sewer. in 1915 it was modified were all you did was push a handle, the way you do now in days, and the waste was gone.In the last century Thomas Crapper had a company that made toilets,washbasins and baths. Can you guess how his name lived on?.
I hope that answers your question. If you mean John Crapper he is the inventor of the porcelin toilet. A. Thomas Crapper held many patents for toilets , but the inventor was named John Harrington. Thus we have the two nicknames for the flush toilet. I bless them in memory often. Our lives would be much less civilized without their contributions. (MORE)

\nHe was a plumber who founded Thomas Crapper & Co. Ltd. in London. Despite urban legend, Crapper did not invent the flush toilet (the myth being helped by the surname). Ho…wever, Crapper put in effort to popularise it and did come up with some related inventions. He was noted for the quality of his products and received several Royal Warrants. The noun "crap" was in use long before he was born, but no longer used in Victorian Britain. The manhole covers with Crapper's company's name on them in Westminster Abbey are now a minor tourist attraction. Thomas Crapper and his company The story of Thomas Crapper and his achievements has been somewhat confused by Wallace Reyburn's 1969 book Flushed With Pride: The Story of Thomas Crapper ( ISBN 1-85702-860-0 ), a heavily fictionalised satirical biography in the style of scholarship [1]. Adam Hart-Davis' later writings on Crapper help set the record straight. Crapper was born in Waterside, Yorkshire (near Thorne), in September 1836 (the exact date is unknown). His father Charles was a steamboat captain. At the age of 14, Crapper was apprenticed to a master plumber in Chelsea, London. After his apprenticeship and three years as a journeyman plumber, in 1861 he founded his own company at Robert Street, Chelsea. In 1866 he moved the business to nearby Marlborough Road (now part of Draycott Avenue). Thomas Crapper did not invent the flush toilet - credit is usually given to Sir John Harington in 1596, with Alexander Cummings' 1775 toilet regarded as the first of the modern line - but he did popularise it. He was a shrewd businessman, salesman and self-publicist. In a time when bathroom fixtures were barely spoken of, he heavily promoted sanitary plumbing and pioneered the concept of the bathroom fittings showroom. In the 1880s, Prince Edward (later Edward VII) purchased his country seat of Sandringham House in Norfolk and invited Thomas Crapper & Co. to supply the plumbing, including thirty lavatories with cedarwood seats and enclosures, thus giving Crapper his first Royal Warrant. The firm received further warrants from Edward as King and from George V both as Prince of Wales and as King. Contrary to popular belief, however, Crapper never received a knighthood and was never styled Sir Thomas Crapper. In 1904 Crapper retired, passing the firm to his nephew George and his business partner Robert Marr Wharam. Crapper lived at 12 Thornsett Road, Anerley for the last thirteen years of his life and died on January 27, 1910. He was buried in the nearby Elmers End Cemetery. In 1966, the company was sold by then-owner Robert G. Wharam (son of Robert Marr Wharam) on his retirement, to their rivals John Bolding & Sons. Bolding then went into liquidation in 1969. The company fell out of use until 1998, when the firm was acquired by Simon Kirby, a historian and collector of antique bathroom fittings, who relaunched the company in Stratford-upon-Avon, producing authentic reproductions of Crapper's original Victorian bathroom fittings. Source: http://www.answers.com/thomas+crapper?gwp=11&ver=2.3.0.609&method=3 . (MORE)

Contrary to popular belief Crapper did not invent the the flushing toilet. He did, however, do much to increase the popularity of the toilet, and developed some important rela…ted inventions, such as the the ballcock. (MORE)

No, he really did invent the flush toilet. It's not that surprising; people starting calling the toilet "the crapper" because he invented it. The word did not exist before his… invention. It wasn't like the word already existed, and by some hilarious coincidence a guy named Crapper just happened to invent something that you, um...crap in. Besides, if the terms "crap" and "the crapper" had already existed, don't you think the Crapper family would have long since changed their name to something else? Crapport, maybe? (MORE)

While there is a popular and false urban legend that Thomas Crapper invented the flush toilet, it happens to be a fact that Thomas Crapper was a real person, ( baptised 28 Sep…tember 1836; died 27 January 1910) a plumber, and the holder of several plumbing related patents. In 1853 he was apprenticed to his brother George, a plumber. Apprenticeship is like a hands-on education in a trade; better than formal school in many ways, and essential in Crapper's time when formal education was not freely available to everyone. (MORE)

No, not yet at least. Roman Catholic Answer To the best of my knowledge, Thomas Crapper was a plumber who had a firm in London from the end of the 19th century into the 20th… century. Odds are pretty good that he was an Anglican and no non-Catholic has ever been declared a saint. (MORE)